the top searches on google for the vice presidential debate were joe biden, malarkey, and who is winning the debate, but search engines can also raise eyebrows, for instance, when i type completely wrong into the google image's search, i get a lot of photos of mitt romney. >> reporter: google says that it was unintentional, they picked up romney's only description of his 47% remarks. we saw a similar situation on bing. >> for a search engine, they really rely on what is around the image to learn what it is about. if you put words, completely wrong, they think i guess it is relevant for completely wrong. >> reporter: sometimes it is intentional, these are called google-bombs, in the mid-2,000s, they put president bush at the top of the google page. google later limited the practice. intentional or not, a search brings up "debate fail," but also people like governor romney, and one time presidential hopeful, john kerry. and speaking of kerry, who was accused of flip-flopping on the issues, the conservative bloggers managed to put his search word as "waffle". >> is this something that candi